[One Proud Dad]

She and pig face Mary should be in jail with Nagin.

[upchuck]

There was only one sentence left. Why did you bother to excerpt this? Here ya go:

Blanco, appearing with Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, said that will never happen again.

[.cnI redruM]

Wow! Susan Collins got after her? Collins must be out to maintain the minimum flying time necessary to keep her GOP license.

[edgrimly78]

"Blanco, appearing with Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, said that will never happen again"--It already happened. When are her and "chocolate man" going to own up to the truth?

[upchuck]

More from here:

A congressional committee wants to know why many nursing home residents were left behind before Hurricane Katrina hit, and Louisiana's governor was called upon to answer the committee's questions this morning.

Gov. Kathleen Blanco finished her testimony before the committee just before noon.

According to the state's emergency plan, the Department of Transportation and Development was responsible for the evacuation of the state's most vulnerable residents, like nursing homes and hospital patients. At least 140 patients at New Orleans area hospitals and nursing homes died during the storm and its aftermath.

On Capitol Hill today, two senators told Blanco they were disappointed in the testimony given previously by DOTD Secretary Johnny Bradberry, who said he didn't think nursing home and hospital patient evacuation was an appropriate responsibility for his agency to bear.

Committee Chairwoman Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, asked Blanco what the state was doing to fix the problem.

"We certainly agree with you that the Department of Transportation should have planned the evacuation of the most needy citizens," Blanco said. "Let me say that that will never happen again."

Blanco said in the future nursing home evacuations will fall under the Department of Health and Hospitals. She also said nursing home owners have a personal responsibility to follow their evacuation plan.

Thursday marked the second time the governor has answered questions in Washington, D.C., about the response to Hurricane Katrina. Committee members will also take testimony from Mississippi Gov. Hailey Barbour.

[RexBeach]

"Governor Blanco, can you tell us this: Are you happy or married? Do you take a bus or a lunch to work? When are you going to clean up your closet? What's your favorite color? Where is Shreveport, Louisiana?"

[SwinneySwitch]

Blanco Cried, People Died

[Tzimisce]

Kathy: just tell them it's all Bush's fault. (Maybe FEMA...)

[jmaroneps37]

Wow when somebody like Collins can't find a way to let blanco mind off the hook, the stink from this thing must be huge. The Louisiana rat will NOT just walk away from this one. It will be the grease that sends the state into GOP hands. Thereafter it will stay there.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Liberal spin alert: What's with the phrase "needled"? The "needled" her? Sounds like they were just having a little fun.

But the issue is why sick people died because they were not evacuated -- that's not a laughing matter.

[Dolphy]

Earlier tonight Clinton sponsored a bill that would have created an independent commission to investigate Katrina. Collins passionately defended her committee's work to date. The bill failed.

I watched Collins questioning Nagin yesterday, she went hard at him over the nursing home issue (well as hard as she goes). It has to be abundantly clear, whatever the federal government's failings, that Nagin and Blanco were almost criminally incompetent. They could not master the resources at arms length or serve the people within minutes from them.

[mewzilla]

Bet they didn't ask her about this...

Blanco orders remodeling just after storms Office tab: $564,838